Macomb High School - Spiderweb Yearbook (Macomb, IL)

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 Page Sixteen The Mdccmb High School Us Qroipth and Purpose The following statistics show the growth of the seventh and eighth grades (whi h is now the Junior High School—organized in 1915, and the Senior High School oi Macomb, Illinois, during the last sixteen years, according to records in the office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction at Springfield. The rapid growth since 1915 accounts for the crowded condition at the present time. ENROLLMENT Date 7th Grade 8th Grade High S:hool Senior 1907 Not Reported Not Reported 151 1908 1 19 1909 • 146 1910 • 14 191 1 • a.. « 144 1912 83 45 123 1913 83 45 136 1914 82 54 156 1915 82 61 157 1916 81 86 201 1917 123 77 229 1918 115 103 212 1919 100 74 214 1920 95 95 245 1921 134 104 320 1922 105 95 33? Total enrollment at the beginning of the second semester. 1922-23. 122 100 370 Mere pupils are attending the American High S'hool teday than ever before. 1 lie school directory shows there are 30.000 more pupils att nding high school in IUinc.i this year than last. It is the usual rather than the unusual thing for boys and g r! to finish a high school course. Because of this fact high school adm'nistrations should become more and more efficient that our ci ilizaticn may move forward in the right direction and that national and wer'd prob'ems may be properly solved The high school should be the social unit for the exercise and deve'opment of all we term humanism. No longer do we emphasize mere knowledge. We recogm :e indi vidualities and unfolding personalities. Life is measured by deeds, not by years. Whatever makes the world better, whatever makes life brighter, whatever makes the bey or girl stronger, whatever bring the heart nearer humanity, and heaven nearer the heart, that ought to be taught in e ery high school. A sound heart which threbs fer Gcd a d humanity is a good thing: a sound heart and a dear head are better: but a sound heart, a clear head, and a skilled hand gi e us the nearest approach to a perfect man. We must ha- e an education of clean hands, of steady nerves of pure heart', of ripe intellect, of an upright life, an education of justice which gives every one b»? rights. V ery cordially rows. FRNEST ILER. Super n'enjtrtl of dtp SchyfJi

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 ‘age Eighteen SUCCESS There comes a time in the life of each person when he must make a great decision This is the crisis or turning point of life. Whether the change be good or bad can never be told until he completes his task. The chocsing of the road to take is a critical undertaking that not even the most skilled or the most highly educated can suggest with knowledge of its outcome. We. the class of nineteen twenty-three, will, in a short time, have to make this decision and we gladly await that supreme moment with hope that it will be for the best. We can not of course tell what would be the best thing for us, but we think that the four short and happy years of our life at High School will so benefit us that we wi’.l choose the right road and make a great success. Success is net a thing that is given to us, but for us to achieve and to do so our High School education will assist us over many hard bumps and wide chasms ol default. We can never say too much for our High School and the teachers there, for thus far they have been our guide posts along the road of life, and after we leave here and have to go along the unblazed trail we will know then what they did for use. Now that we are soon to bid farewell to our High School days, we can on'y look forward into the future w’th hope, and may this heps be never dying, because it a'one will be our star of achievement and if we reach its height we can look out on the woild and say, All that I am or hope to be, I owe to Macomb High School.